INDEX. 



391 



Affluence. Greatness too often as 

 cribed to affluence of commodities, 

 v. 313. 



Agathocles, conduct to the captive 

 Syracusans, i. 378. 



Age and youth prejudiced, vii. 41. 



Age will not be defied, i. 1 10 ; essay on 

 youth and, i. 142 ; heat in age ex 

 cellent for business, i. 143 ; Alonzo 

 of Arragon s commendation of age, 

 i. 372. 



Agesilaus, excellent though deformed, 

 i. 147 ; saying of his, i. 380 ; called 

 home from Persia upon a war against 

 Sparta by Athens and Thebes, v. 315; 

 his saying thereon, v. 315. 



Agricultural experiments, vii. 221. 



Agrippina, preference of empire, ii. 88. 



Agues, what wines best for, iv. 11 ; 

 use of hartshorn in, iv. 359. 



Air, transmutation of into water, iv. 

 14, 48 ; diversity of infusions in, 

 iv. 11 ; in water, cause of quick as 

 cent of, iv. 12 ; condensation of by 

 cold, iv. 17 ; aptness to corrupt, 

 iv. 427 ; commixture of with flame, 

 iv. 18 ; effect of the inspissation of 

 the, iv. 498 ; touching the nature of, 

 iv. 469 ; flying of unequal bodies in 

 the, iv. 417 ; experiment touching 

 the congealing of, iv. 179. 



Air and water, experiments as to weight 

 in, vii. 216. 



Air, and sound, iv. 80, 



Airs, experiment touching, v. 411. 



Albans, to the Lord St., from Bucking 

 ham, promising to move his majesty 

 to take off the restraint upon his not 

 coming within the verge of the court, 

 xiii. 35. 



Albans, the Lord St., to a friend, 

 believing his own danger less than 

 he found it, xiii. 45. 



Albans, the Lord St., to the same hum 

 ble servant, employing him to do a 

 good office with a great man, xiii. 46. 



Albans, from Lord St., praying that 

 the King will let him die out of a 

 cloud, and suffer his honours to be 

 transmitted, xiii. 41. 



Albans, from Lord St., to the King, 

 thanking him for his liberty, xiii. 32. 



Albans, from Lord St., to the King, 

 praying for a continuance of the 

 King s kindness, xiii. 32. 



Albans, Lord St., to a most dear friend, 

 in whom he notes an entireness and 

 impatient attention to do him service, 

 xiii. 47. 



Albans, Lord St., to the Lord Trea 



surer Marlborough, expostulating 

 about his uukindness and injustice, 

 xiii. 47. 



Albans, to the Lord St., from Bucking 

 ham , promising to supply his decayed 

 cables, xiii. 39. 



Albans, to the Lord St., from Buck 

 ingham, touching his book, xiii. 40. 



Albans, to the Lord St., from Buck 

 ingham, thanking him for a parabien, 

 xiii. 40. 



Albans, to the Lord St., from Bucking 

 ham, touching his application to the 

 King, xiii. 40. 



Albans, to the Lord St., from the Bishop 

 of Lincoln, upon the orations of Ci 

 cero, Demosthenes, and the works 

 of his lordship, xiii. 41. 



Albans, to the Lord St., from the 

 Marquis of Buckingham, expressing 

 the King s willingness to see his book, 

 but refusing to let him remain in 

 London, xiii. 33. 



Albans, to the Lord St., from Bucking 

 ham, xiii. 34. 



Albans, to the Lord St., from Bucking 

 ham , concerning York House, xiii. 34. 



Albert Durer, his mode of painting, 

 i. 145 ; said that we are beholden to 

 him for many of our articles of faith, 

 i. 409. 



Alchemists follow wrong principles to 

 make gold, iv. 160 ; their philoso 

 phy, or the Grecians, all now re 

 ceived, i. 252 ; means used by, more 

 monstrous than the end, ii. 147 ; 

 errors of in forming science, ii. 49. 



Alchemy, white and red, vii. 202 ; 

 advantages of to science, ii. 44. 



Alcibiades, of high spirit yet beautiful, 

 i. 145 ; advice to Pericles, studying 

 how to give in his accounts, i. 358. 



Alcohol, a powder made of, iv. 390. 



Alexander, body of, found, iv. 408 ; 

 Livy s saying of him, i. 268; his 

 conquest of Persia, v. 315 ; Livy s 

 judgment of him, v. 315 ; his opinion 

 of the cause of Calisthenes eloquence 

 in his speeches on the Macedonians, 

 v. 339, 360 ; melancholy in his lat 

 ter years, i. 63 ; his conduct at Ar- 

 bela, i. 100 ; not just to deny credit 

 to his acts, i. 322 ; his saying of 

 Craterus and Hephasstion, i. 372 ; 

 saying of Antipater, i. 373 ; his an 

 swer to Parmenio, i. 377, 386 ; 

 cleanliness of, iv. 4 ; an instance of 

 excellence in arms and learning, ii. 

 15 ; his admiration of Homer, ii. 71 ; 

 education of, ii. 71 ; preferred learn- 



